Question

The dulac box plant produces 500 cypress packing boxes in two 10-hour shifts. due to higher demand, they have decided to operate three 8-hour shifts instead. they are now able to produce 600 boxes per day. what has happened to productivity? (round each intermediate calculation to 2 decimal places) it has increased by 50 sets/shift. it has increased by 37.5 sets/hr. it has decreased by 20%. it has decreased by 6.7%. it has decreased by 9.1%. none of the above

Answer 1

NONE OF THE ABOVE.

Produced 500 boxes in 2 10-hour shifts.
2 x 10 = 20 hours
500 boxes / 20 hours = 25 boxes / hour

Produced 600 boxes in 3 8-hour shifts
3 x 8 = 24 hours
600 boxes / 24 hours = 25 boxes / hour

Each hourly production is the same, 25 boxes / hour. The 3 8-hour shifts only has higher output than the 2 10-hour shifts because its hours are longer by 4 hours.